Shade-roller.



Iig. 610,528?. Pateptlgd Mar. 26,191,

E. F. HARTSHoRN.

SHADE ROLLER.

(Application `ined Mgr.l 11, 1899.)

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EDMUND 4F. HARTSHORN, OF.NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO STEWART HARTSHORN COMPANY, OF NEW JERSEY.

SHADE-ROLLER.

SPECIFIGATION forming' part O'f Letters Patent NO. 670,587, dated. March 2,6, 1901 Application filed March 11, 1899. Serial No. 708,667. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, EDMUND F. HARTS- HORN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Newark, county of Essex, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade- Rollers, of which the following is a specification. y

This improvement refers to the metallic end cap or shell which is placed over the end of wooden shade-rollers and serves to secure in place the end. plate, against which the spring in the roller presses, and also to finish theend of the roller; and the improvement consists in a novel method of fastening the shell to the wooden roller.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my improvement, Figure 1 is a side View of a roller with the end cap a attached according to my improvement, and Fig. 2 is a sectional side View of the samef Heretofore these shells or end caps have been secured to the roller by puncturing the sides of the shell and driving the broken edges of the metal into the wood of the roller, and it was necessary to make a number of these indentations or punctures in the shell to attach it firmly. This method of attachment, however, is very objectionable from the fact that the broken indentations or holes made in the metal of the shell cause the latter to crack and split open and the shell thereby to become loosened and detached from the roller, and, furthermore, the punctures produce a rough broken surface of the shell, and thus detract from the appearance of the roller. In this improvement I attach the shell to the roller by bending down and pressing in the inner edge of the shell into the wood of the roller entirely around its circumference.

As shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the end of the roller b should slightly taper from the end outward or be of a slightly smaller diameter at its end to enable the ca'p d to be placed over it. When the cap is thus placed in position over the end of the roller, the inner edge c is turned down or inward by a suitable instrument in such a manner as to be pressedA into the wood and penetrate the same. As the edge of the shell is thus turned inward,it follows that the shell is drawn more tightly over theend of the roller and made to itmore firmly on the latter and press more snugly against the end plate d. The shell is thus secured to the roller by its turned-in inner edge, whereby it is not only more iirmly and snugly held in place on the roller, but the sides of the roller are not punctured or broken in any way, but remain whole and smooth, and,moreover, as the fastening of the shell is at the extreme edge and as this edge is turned in it fits closely around the roller and cannot b e turned up and interfere with the smooth surface of the roller and shell. By this method of fastening all liability of the shell cracking and splitting is avoided,- A

and the shell is not only caused to fit the end 'of the rollermore secu-rely, but the appearance of the roller is heightened by an unbroken smooth surface of the shell.

What I claim is- A wooden shade-roller provided witha metal shell having its inner edge turned in and down to penetrate the wood of the roller around the circumference thereof, substantially as described.

Signed by me at E. Newark, New Jersey, this 21st day of FebruaryA. D. 1899.

EDMUND F. HARTSHORN.

Witnesses: f

E. L. DUEGIN, GEO. GUNTHER. 

